Armenian Revolutionary Federation

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) is a democratic socialist political party in Armenia founded in 1890. It joined Socialist International in 1907, and the ARF fought for independence from the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire in hopes of forming an independent Greater Armenia. The ARF avenged the Armenian Genocide by hunting down the perpetrators and killing them in a campaign across Europe targeting leaders of both Turkey and Azerbaijan, and from 1918 to 1920 the ARF was one of the ruling parties of the First Republic of Armenia. After Armenia was occupied by the Soviet Union, the ARF had anti-Soviet and anti-communist views, and it became a democratic socialist party in an independent Armenia. In 2016, it had 5/131 seats in the National Assembly of Armenia, 7/33 National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh seats, and 2/128 seats in the Parliament of Lebanon; the group has been active in both Armenia and the Armenian diaspora.